Heineken And Sam Adams Are Boycotting St. Patrick’s Day Parades Until Gays Can March

You’ll be seeing a lot of green beer vomit this weekend, but it won’t be from Heineken or Sam Adams, both of which pulled their support from major St. Patrick Day’s parades because gay and lesbian groups aren’t allowed to openly march. It’s a noble move, one that Heineken hopes will boost sales, at least in San Fransisco and Providence and other markets where people have seen Blue Velvet.

Sam Adams, owned by Boston Beer Co., will no longer be sponsoring the parade in Boston on Sunday, while Heineken has pulled its sponsorship from the New York City parade on Monday.

“We believe in equality for all,” a Heineken USA spokeswoman said.

Sam Adams said it had tried to convince Boston’s parade organizers to modify their rules and allow LGBT groups to march. “We were hopeful an agreement could be reached to allow everyone, regardless of orientation, to participate in this parade,” the company said in a statement. “However, given the current status of the negotiations, this may not be possible.”

While bigotry of any kind is disgusting, I think Sam Adams beer is equally disgusting. Can we include gays and lesbians in the parade while still excluding Sam Adams? Because that garbage has no place in any kind of real St Paddy’s Day celebration.

I thought LGBT persons were not allowed to march because they were gay. I then did some research thinking this was very odd in this day & age, but found gays are completely allowed to march, just not under the banner of being gay. In fact no political groups can march, they do the same thing with the “right to life” groups. no longer care, as they aren’t really trying to be bigoted, they’re just not taking sides on any political points.